TOEFL Haiku

TOEFL HAIKU

1
Peer pressure, panic
Go to SIU in June-
Choose the correct answer!

2
April TOEFL class,
Listening section blah blah
What did the man mean?

3
outside, spring blossome
finish reading section!
c, c, c, c, c!

4
listen to passage
about fishing- do NOT write
on the answer sheet!

5
barbeque on porch,
neighbors drunk on Friday night
long reading section!

6
No eating in pool-
meaning of “pool” in line 1?
Life is a reading question…

7
B and D are wrong,
A and C are possible,
Missing the picnic!

8
That I am the person whose
summer comes to this!

9
Native country code,
fill in the little circles-
slight breeze from window

10
what can be inferred,
asks question forty seven-
brain is at the beach

11
fishing on boat dock,
grammar section on my mind,
mosquito on knee

12
spring smell, flowers’ bloom
attract bees- if bee is right,
a, c and d must be wrong!

13
summer impatience
heard this example before,
neither likes painting!

14
don’t slow down to fix
sandals, race clock, read ev’ry
passage- pencils down!



from the 072 EOT Exhibit
-Tom Leverett

spring storm
 
her silence descends on the house
 
with clouds and darkness
 
-Kurt Larsen

Magnetic Poetry Kit, by Jessica

I was a little stumped and I couldn't think of a poem, so a friend suggested that I check out this site. I did and I had fun writing this poem.

the world


think
harmony
empty

water waste wood
open
rhythm
life
dust

~Jessica Montgomerie

Limericks about fictional folks, by Colin Robinson

Joy (absolutely no intended relation to our fine CESL Staff member - just a one syllable name that rhymes with Illinois)

There once was a girl named Joy,
Who grew up in Southern Illinois,
She was very polite,
And sometimes contrite,
But was never someone to annoy.


Sam

There once was a student named Sam,
Who his teachers thought was a ham,
For he told a good joke,
About pigs in a poke,
And another 'bout a wolf and a lamb.



Colin Robinson, CESL Teacher

CESL haiku

in class

lawn mowers attack
listening class their victim
please repeat question!


between classes

cigarette beckons
though you said you quit before
some fire during break!


Monday

the pain of hearing
sounds that must be translated
English is torture!


Life

Life after CESL
a big university
classes in English!


at the window

woods green and friendly
calming people walking by
nature's boundary


at the board

a word spelled on board
a or e? possibly wrong?
dictionary knows...

-Tom Leverett
I've been writing lots of haiku lately...come visit!

cesl teacher poetry